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[semi-non-op] 9netave junk fax
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John R Levine)
Sat Jun 19 19:21:52 1999
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 19:20:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: John R Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I gather than 9netave, a web hosting company in New Jersey, sent out
last week large numbers of junk faxes to numbers scraped from WHOIS. I
certainly got one, even though my listing says "NO FAX ADS $500 PENALTY".
As you probably know, junk faxes are both unethical and illegal. You can sue
for up to $1500 per junk fax under 47 USC 227. A friend and I are trying to
put together a group suit to encourage them not to try steal customers that
way. If you got one of these and still have it, please email either me or
Ray Everett-Church, ray@everett.org.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Sewer Commissioner
Finger for PGP key, f'print = 3A 5B D0 3F D9 A0 6A A4 2D AC 1E 9E A6 36 A3 47
